Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armies, transportation facilities must be rebuilt and expanded. (Part of Baldwin Locomotive is shifting from tank manufacture to making special locomotives for the Government, for use in Europe.) To feed, clothe and shelter civilian populations, U.S. capital goods production must still be large. All this means that a big chunk of U.S. industry will probably be hard at peacetime production when the war ends, although production for the U.S. civilian will benefit little at first...
Unwrapping a package mailed to them last week, Cleveland OPA officials found a cooked pork chop inside. With it was a letter from an indignant Buffalo businessman. He had ordered a chop in a restaurant, and had been served the minuscule chunk enclosed, which weighed less than two ounces. OPA officials got busy on the case, pausing only to issue a hasty plea to irate citizens: just tell us about it, never mind sending the evidence...
...Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, they had fought a bitter minor battle. The War Department had plumped for the use of rayon cord in synthetic tires in place of cotton. The politicos, ever-sensitive in their cotton fibers, worried about the South's loss of a good chunk of its domestic cotton market. Then, last week, the Senate's Truman Committee mightily boosted the cause of cotton cord...
Fact-minded Administrator Newton has spent a good chunk of his life making things plain. A graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both American Airlines and Pan American Airways) still own a big chunk of his company. Keeshin's grandiose postwar air-freight plan is to serve over 200 U.S. cities with five-to-eleven-ton transports and also to establish "gateway" service for foreign freight runs in 18 air "ports," from New York to Seattle, and from Minneapolis to Miami and New Orleans...